The Stable Release
So it's finally here! THE STABLE RELEASE OF ALPACA!!!!!!!!!
First of all I want to thank all of you that have supported me through these months, it's been really fun developing an app that people actually use, with almost 15k users on Flathub, I think it's finally time to launch the stable release of Alpaca!!!!
Also if you want to.. I'm open for donations via GitHub Sponsors :)
Now let's get to the actual release notes!
Features and fixes
- Updated Ollama instance to 0.2.8
- Better model selector
- Model manager redesign
- Better tag selector when pulling a model
- Model search
- Added support for bearer tokens on remote instances
- Preferences dialog redesign
- Added context menus to interact with a chat
- Redesigned primary and secondary menus
- YouTube integration: Paste the URL of a video with a transcript and it will be added to the prompt
- Website integration (Experimental): Extract the text from the body of a website by adding it's URL to the prompt
- Chat title generation
- Auto resizing of message entry
- Chat notifications
- Added indicator when an image is missing
- Auto rearrange the order of chats when a message is received
- Redesigned file preview dialog
- Credited new contributors
- Better stability and optimization
- Edit messages to change the context of a conversation
- Added disclaimers when pulling models
- Preview files before sending a message
- Better format for date and time on messages
- Error and debug logging on terminal
- Auto-hiding sidebar button
- Various UI tweaks
New Models
- Gemma2
- GLM4
- Codegeex4
- InternLM2
- Llama3-groq-tool-use
- Mathstral
- Mistral-nemo
- Firefunction-v2
- Nuextract
Translations
These are all the available translations on 1.0.0, thanks to all the contributors!
- Russian: Alex K
- Spanish: Jeffser
- Brazilian Portuguese: Daimar Stein
- French: Louis Chauvet-Villaret
- Norwegian: CounterFlow64
- Bengali: Aritra Saha
- Simplified Chinese: Yuehao Sui
Also visit this discussion for more information on the release!
Thanks to all of you for the support!
I will continue developing this app